vocab Flashcards

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industralizaiton

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  • old and new tech knowledge that led to major economic changes in britain, northwestern, europe, north america
  • harnessing of fossil fuels which
  • allowed econmic growth to outpace the rate of population increase
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Mercantilism

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  • econmic system in 16th-18th century in eruope
  • promoted **trade balance **for nation with teh extraction of raw materials and the distribution of manufactured goods to colonies
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Capitilsim

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  • **is an economic system **
  • a free market to determine the most
  • determines resources + prices based on supply and demand.”
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communism

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  • a political and economic ideology that is opposite to liberal democracy and capitalism.
  • a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailed.”
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Working Class/Porelait

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  • lower/working class sell their labor in order to earn a living(under captalislm)
  • no free access to the products of their labor + no access to means of communcation?
  • alientated from the products they produce + each other
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Capitalist/Bourgeoisie

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19th century, non-noble property owners, especially those who controlled modern industry.”

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Labor Unions (Luddites)

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  • an organization of workers in a trade, industry, or company that is created to represent the workers in negotiations with management over issues of pay, benefits, and working conditions.
  • with employers in a process known as collective bargaining.
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what was the slavery system called

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the transatlantic trade system

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how were slaves in muslim parts differnet than slaves used in the USA.

Why?

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muslim slaves = 2 women to every 1 man
USA slaves= 2 man to every 1 woman

we wanted labor and the muslim wanted cooking cleaning and s*x

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why did brazil import more slaves than the USA

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-the working conditions werent good that the life expecantcy was age 23 so they would have to keep importing slaves
- in america the slaves would have kids and would contiune to reproudce so their was less need to import as many slaves as brazil

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nickname for trade

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triangle trade

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12
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what is the middle passage

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triangular trade linking africa + america

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